Talk:WikiConference UK 2012/Elections/Questions

Why can't questions be asked of specific candidates? There is no such rule mentioned on last year's page (although the layout of the page does assume it). These elections are a very serious matter and if someone has concerns about a particular candidate they should be able to share those concerns with the rest of the membership. Doing so via a question (so as to automatically give the candidate right-of-reply) makes a lot of sense to me. There are also less controversial questions that won't be relevant to every candidate - for example, it would be sensible to ask outgoing board members what they feel their greatest achievement on the board had been and what they would have liked to have done/done better, but there is no point asking that of people that haven't been on the board. --Tango (talk) 09:32, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

We ('the tellers') were concerned that there would be a 'pile on' of dozens of tangentially questions for one candidate, which is something we want to avoid. For example, if I was running for board, there might be lots of questions about my time on ArbCom, or lots of questions about the health of my wife. However, I've spoken to James (the other teller), and we've decided that we'll allow people to ask questions of individual candidates, within reason. Any inappropriate questions will be removed reactively, and the tellers will have the final say on whether or not a question is appropriate. We'll be pretty relaxed about it, but we need to be able to stop any disruption of the process by non-members. Richard Symonds (talk) 13:26, 17 April 2012 (UTC)